Fact of the day along with the wiki trail of the day: Today in 1920, prohibition was passed in the U.S. Kansas gets the prize for being the first state to pass the law in 1881 with many states following suit until the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment that spoiled the fun for everyone.



Interesting figure in the prohibition story: Carrie A. Nation. I know what you're thinking, she is totally a hottie. So why does this lovely creature have any kind of notoriety? Because she acted against prohibition...using a frickin' axe (and I don't mean that she wailed on a fender strat about the dangers of drunkenness). She would go into establishments and use her hatchet to break all the alcohol bottles and cause a huge scene.


"Alone or accompanied by hymn-singing women, she would march into a bar and sing and pray, while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet. Between 1900 and 1910, she was arrested some 30 times for 'hatchetations,' as she came to call them.

"Nation's anti-alcohol activities became well known, with the slogan 'All Nations Welcome But Carrie' becoming a bar-room staple. She published a biweekly newsletter called The Smasher's Mail, a newspaper titled The Hatchet, and later in life exploited her name by appearing in vaudeville, selling photographs of herself, charging to lecture, and marketing miniature hatchets." [wiki]


So who is up for some modern-day hatchetations? Seriously, how amazing would it be to walk into your local Hummer dealership and smash it to bits while your fellow radicals sing a rousing rendition of "How Great Thou Art?"